Beecher v. Alabama

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1967-10-23

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Me. Justice Black concurs in the judgment of the Court reversing the conviction in this case but does so exclusively on the ground that the confession of the petitioner was taken from him in violation of the Self-Incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which Amendment was made applicable to the States by .the Fourteenth Amendment.…

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